Hi, Yes, I had installed a wrong GIT. Thanks it worked now! However, with a http protocol instead of git and rsync because of firewall issue, I guess! Thanks and Regards, Shyamal On 4/19/06, Erik Mouw <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:46:57PM +0530, Shyamal Sadanshio wrote: > > I am newbie to GIT and facing some problem with the GIT usage. I am > > trying to clone a repository at www.linux-mips.org with the > > following command, I get error message as below: > > > > ************************************************************************** > > [root@sshyamal git-tutorial]# git clone > > git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/linux-malta.git linux-malta.git > > git: warning: invalid extra options ignored > > > > GNU Interactive Tools 4.3.20 (i686-pc-linux-gnu), 12:39:46 Apr 18 2006 > > GIT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the > > terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free > > Software > > Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. > > Copyright (C) 1993-1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > Written by Tudor Hulubei and Andrei Pitis, Bucharest, Romania > > > > git: fatal error: `chdir' failed: permission denied. > > You're using the wrong GIT. Remove the GNU Interactive Tools and use > git from kernel.org. > > > > *************************************************************************** > > > > I am exercising this command in root mode. > > There is absolutely zero reason to run git as root. > > > Erik > > -- > +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- > | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands > - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html